Trump’s next visit highlights the Freedom of Expression crisis in the United Kingdom

With the expected departure of President Donald Trump for a state visit to the United Kingdom later this month, another high-level arrest exposed the crisis of freedom of expression of Great Britain.

The arrest of the Irish actor based in Arizona, Graham Linehan, for having allegedly criticized transgender activists on social networks, coincided with a warning Wednesday by British politician Nigel Farage in the Congress that England collapsed in a “really horrible authoritarian situation”.

On Wednesday, the leader of the Populist reform party of the British reform told American legislators during an audience on “European threats of freedom of expression” that the screenwriter of the sitcom Linehan discovered what life in the North Korean totalitarian state at Heathrow airport in London on Monday.

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The co-creator of “Father Ted” Graham Linehan speaks to the media outside the Westminster magistrate court, London, where he pleaded not guilty of having harassed a transgender woman and damaging his phone. The Irish comedy writer, 56, denied the accusations of harassing Sophia Brooks on social networks and harming his mobile in October. Image date: Monday, May 12, 2025. (Images Lucy North / PA via Getty Images)

The arrest of Linehan in a nation which is widely considered as one of the birthplaces of robust freedom of expression has sparked a fierce criticism of the leftist Labor government.

The actor and actor John Cleese, whose film “The Life of Brian” satiated a biblical man who wanted to become a woman named Loretta and has babies, wrote to her more than 5.3 million followers on Linehan: “I see that it took five London police officers to arrest an actor. During an actor.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that “I would simply say that in terms of the United Kingdom, strange things happen there. They are severe and surprisingly. And I talked to the Prime Minister and, let’s see what’s going on. But, this is a slightly different situation. I am very surprised to see what’s going on.”

Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister, on the left, and US President Donald Trump, at a bilateral meeting at the Trump Turnberry Golf Course in Turnberry, in Scotland on Monday, July 28, 2025. Trump said that he would reduce the deadline for 50 days, saying that he had been disappointed by his counterpart by pursuing the war. (Tolga Akmen / EPA / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer said at a meeting of the February White House that “we had freedom of expression for very, very long in the United Kingdom – and it will last very, for a very long time”.

Clear examples of repression of freedom of expression in recent years abound, according to criticism in the United Kingdom and the United States, under conservative governments and labor.

In January, hertfordshire police arrested the parents, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, for shared messages in a group of parents’ catsapp. Six police officers searched their residence and the couple was detained for eight hours during a primary school in Cowley Hill. The school complained of Allen’s remarks on the job process for a main teacher.

Essex police launched an investigation into the chronicle of the conservative daily telegraph Allison Pearson for an allegedly racist X position which criticized the police in November 2024. They wrote, in the context of the pro-Palestinian gatherings, many of which adopt the Hamas terrorist organization: “How they dare.

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Union Jack Flags on the Westminster bridge in front of the Parliament’s houses on November 6, 2024 in London, United Kingdom. London is one of the main tourist destinations in the world, with many famous tourist attractions, with Elizabeth Tower which contains Big Ben being one of the emblematic views of the capital. (Mike Kemp / in Pictures via Getty Images)

In August, the owner of the company Rob Davies, whose store had suffered from display, was advised by the police to delete a handwritten note declaring: “Due to the flight to the display of Scumbags, please request help to open cabinets.” Davies refused and was not arrested.

The authorities imprisoned Lucy Connolly, wife of a politician of the conservative party, because she published an allegedly racist message on X after Axel Rudakubana assassinated three children in Southport in August 2024. “Mass deportation now. I worry you of all F —— politeels with them. If it makes me racist.” The court imposed a sentence of 31 months in prison in Connolly.

Lucy Connolly, who was imprisoned for 31 months on a racist tweet which called for mass deportations, among other extreme remarks after the Southport attack, and which was recently published, participated in a round table at the British British British conference in Birmingham, September 6, 2025. (Phil Noble / Reuters)

The vast repression of freedom of expression and thought in the United Kingdom raises alarm bells on both sides of the Atlantic. Critics have allegedly alleged other forms of edges on speech and thought in Great Britain.

Lois Mclatchie Miller, a higher official of legal communications from the British Alliance defending Freedom International, told Fox News Digital that the British authorities used drastic measures to reduce the right to prayer. She said: “We support several people who have prayed silently near the abortion centers.”

Adam Smith-Connor had to pay $ 11,330 for praying in the buffer zone of the abortion clinic in 2022. (Alliance defending UK freedom)

She cited the “most expensive prayer in history as an example” when Adam Smith-Connor, a British veteran of the Afghanistan War, in 2022 engaged in “Three Minutes of Silent Prayer”, which led to a prescription that he pays about $ 11,330.

“Adam prayed for his son, whom he lost against an abortion 22 years ago. He also prayed for men and women confronted with difficult decisions on abortion that day,” according to the defending alliance Freedom International.

vice-president Jd vance Warned that “freedom of expression, I fear, is retired” with regard to the case of Smith-Connor at the Munich security conference in February. McLatchie Miller said: “What JD Vance did was phenomenal.”

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Livia Toscici-Bolt, a retired scientist, was arrested for being expressed outside a clinic of abortion with a sign indicating: “Here to speak if you wish.” (ADF International)

McLatchie Miller cited allegedly additional victims of the rapid repression of the freedom of expression of Great Britain, including the case of the Catholic pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who was “arrested for a crime of reflection”, close to a clinic of abortion for silent prayer in 2022.

Livia Toscici-Bolt, a retired medical scientist, was arrested for being expressed outside a abortion center with a sign indicating: “Here to speak if you wish.” The authorities arrested him for having violated a law of “buffer zone” which restricts protests in abortion clinics.

Scotland was a kind of terrestrial zero for restrictions on rights to freedom of expression for the pro-life community. The authorities arrested the Pink Docrty grandmother for her silent demonstration outside a Glasgow abortion center. She held a sign that said: “Coercion is a crime here to speak, if you want.”

Police in Liverpool, England (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

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Shawn Carney, President and CEO of Texas, 40 Days for Life, told Fox News Digital that his pro-life organization had British citizens who supervise networks in Great Britain. He described the repression in the United Kingdom as “the new bigotry for freedom of expression. He has developed in recent years”.

When asked why Great Britain would have exhausted freedom of expression, he said: “My only assumption is that the more provisional the United States, the more pro-life their own citizens.” Carney added that the United Kingdom’s restrictions on freedom of expression are also a reaction to President Trump’s pro-life policy. “The United Kingdom was the bank of freedom of expression in the West,” said Carney.